Mathematics for the Workplace
Major
employers in the engineering, construction, pharmaceutical, financial and
retail sectors have all made clear to us their continuing need for people with
appropriate mathematical skills. In particular, employees highlight the storage
of statisticians. Advanced and developing economies need an increasing number
of people with more than minimum qualifications in mathematics to stay ahead in
international competitiveness and in particular to effectively exploit advances
in technology. An adequate supply of young people with mastery of appropriate
mathematical skills at all levels is vital to the future prosperity of Nigeria.
Requirements
for mathematical skills in the workplace have been examined in detail in a
recent report mathematical skills in the workplace (Celia Hoyles, Alison Wolf,
Susan Molyneux-Hodgson and Phillip Kent, June 2002, Institute of Education and
STMC). A key finding of the study was that although the ubiquitous use of the
information technology in all sectors has changed the nature of the
mathematical skills required, it has not reduced the need for mathematics. The
authors of the report refers to these mathematical skills and competences,
framed by the work situation and practice and the use of its tools, as
“mathematical literacy” the term partly reflects the skills needed by
individuals in relation to business goals but also reflects the need to
communicate, mathematically express decisions and judgment to others. On the
basis of detailed case studies the report concludes that there is an increasing
need for workers at all levels of organization to possess an appropriate level
of mathematical literacy.
Mathematics for the Citizens
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